These costs mount up when you have tens or hundreds of unused EBS volumes and EBS snapshots. Snapshots are cheaper than volumes but many teams will be automatically creating snapshots in but not cleaning them up so things can become costly.

Although you can get rid of your detached volumes and old snapshots, how do you automate deleting AWS EBS snapshots? How do you prevent future wastage? You need to write automation scripts to achieve this. However, automated scripts will require maintaining and your time could probably be better spent working on the core parts of your business.

GorillaStack are preparing to release a new product to automate EBS cleanup and reduce your EBS costs. Please get in touch if you’re interested in getting early access!